How to reduce the use cost of printing consumables

Under the premise of ensuring the quality of printing products, how to reduce the use cost of printing consumables such as paper, ink and plate as much as possible is one of the important problems that enterprise managers are facing now. Because in today's domestic printing enterprises with overcapacity, increasingly fierce competition and the arrival of "meager profit era", strictly controlling production costs and building a printing standardization system are the only way for enterprises to enhance their core competitiveness, improve production efficiency, stabilize the quality of printed products and achieve sustainable development. In the daily production process, it will inevitably cause a lot of waste and loss, leading to an increase in production costs. Therefore, it is very important to reduce the use cost of printing consumables. Printing Cat Network will explain how to reduce the use cost of printing consumables from the following aspects, hoping to help you.

I. Strengthening printing equipment

Maintaining and reducing the loss of printing equipment is the basis of production and operation of printing enterprises and an important part of their core competitiveness, so the daily maintenance of equipment can not be ignored. Good equipment maintenance can reduce equipment failures, ensure machine stability, reduce machine calibration time, and print qualified products with less magnification; On the contrary, high failure rate will not only aggravate the waste of consumables, but also increase the maintenance cost and use cost, shorten the service life of equipment and reduce the investment value, and also increase downtime and affect production. The printer housekeeper service provided by the service center under the printing cat network cable can provide customized and standardized maintenance system according to your equipment condition, which can help you improve the stability of production equipment and reduce the waste of defective products and consumables.

Second, accurate inventory management to improve the utilization rate of consumables.

1. Introduce ERP system for information management.

The large loss of raw materials in the production process is an important reason for the increase of production costs of enterprises. Under the traditional management mode, printing enterprises often use the same printing consumption coefficient when calculating wages, so they can't know the real consumption. The introduction of professional ERP system and information management can effectively reduce the utilization rate of printing consumables. ERP system will adjust the printing consumption coefficient used in quotation in time according to the data fed back by users, so that the data is closer to the actual production, thus providing enterprises with quotations closer to the cost. If the operator once finds that the consumption of raw materials in actual production is greater than the data in the bill of quantities, he will technically find out the reason and fundamentally control and reduce the production cost of the enterprise.

2. Warehouse management should follow the principle of "first in, first out"

Because of its own characteristics (such as daily consumption of paper), printing enterprises cannot achieve "zero inventory", and the increase of inventory will inevitably lead to the increase of costs. Therefore, it is necessary to check the minimum inventory of each raw material and product to avoid taking up too much money when storing. Therefore, in warehouse management, we should strictly follow the principle of "first in, first out" to reduce the retention time of consumables and avoid the waste of consumables caused by expiration. Feed according to the material reserve quota, so as to achieve timely and appropriate inventory.

3. Ensure good storage conditions of consumables.

Many printing enterprises do not pay enough attention to the storage conditions of consumables. As we all know, poor storage conditions will seriously affect the quality of consumables. Like paper storage, the temperature and humidity control and dust prevention measures of paper warehouses in many enterprises can not meet the requirements at present, and some even store them in the open air, not to mention temperature and humidity control and dust prevention, which has a negative impact on ensuring and improving the quality of printing and binding and reducing paper consumption. In addition, some chemical materials (such as glue, film, film, ink, UV oil, blanket, etc. ) to meet their storage conditions, but also to ensure the storage conditions of the transferred products.

Third, strictly control the choice of raw materials.

The choice of raw materials will affect the stability of production. Using low-priced consumables, such as raw materials that are not suitable for packaging, printing or production technology, will cause more time to deal with the problems caused by these unsuitable products in the production process. Therefore, when choosing various printing consumables, packaging and printing enterprises cannot blindly pursue low prices and ignore their additional costs. It is necessary to choose the materials that are most suitable for the design and performance of the enterprise's own equipment and the operating habits of technicians, so that the equipment and personnel can operate in the most coordinated and smooth way.

In addition, new materials can be introduced to eliminate outdated consumables and save costs. The application of new materials can not only reduce the consumption of other consumables, but also improve the production efficiency and printing quality. For example, the use of alcohol-free fountain solution can greatly reduce the amount of alcohol added in the production process, thus reducing the printing cost; Using high concentration vegetable oil ink can print thinner ink layer, the quality of printed products can meet customer requirements, and the amount of ink is reduced by about 15%.

Fourth, improve the technical level.

The technical level of printers will also affect the use of printing consumables. Skilled operators who are familiar with the characteristics of various printing materials can use printing consumables effectively, while operators who are not mature in technology and do not understand printing materials will lead to excessive use of printing consumables, thus increasing the use cost of printing consumables. Therefore, printing enterprises should improve the operators' understanding of printing consumables and strictly require operators to operate according to production processes and standards.

In the production process, the phenomenon of red, yellow or blue that the color of printed matter does not match the color of the sample often occurs, or the color mixing of pattern pictures fails after overprinting, which may affect the product quality or make the whole batch of products scrapped. Because of color deviation and other reasons, printed products need to be debugged many times, which will consume a lot of paper and ink. The service center of Yinmao Cable has introduced advanced color management technology, which can greatly improve the time of printing machine and color comparison, thus reducing the waste of water, paper, ink and other consumables needed for online debugging and greatly improving the production capacity.

In addition, printing enterprises often encounter some sudden business interruptions, resulting in a large number of spot color inks remaining. In the case of non-returnability, in order not to cause ink backlog, printing enterprises can use these inks within the warranty period according to the basic principles of color matching when preparing other spot-color inks to avoid waste. India Cat Offline Service Center has a group of experienced, professional and efficient spot color matching engineers, which can help printing enterprises to prepare the required spot color inks and improve the recycling rate of various waste inks.